Deputy Software

Deputy is a cloud-based solution that simplifies scheduling, timesheets, tasking and other employee communication. This solution includes mobile apps and one-click payroll integration and is suited for companies with five employees or more.

While Deputy can be employed in any environment, the features work best for hourly employees rather than salaried employees.

More than 20,000 customers in 73 countries use Deputy to manage their employees, from retail shops to medical offices.

Easy to use - Scheduling as Basic as needed

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I was looking for an easy to use and not too expensive scheduling software for the beginning. The more advance programs are great but we would not yet use all the features. After searching I am happy to start using Deputy. Its easy to log in. Overview is great. Information can be put in so easily. It has everything we need for the start to organize everybody.

Awesome product!

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This makes my job duties with HR so much easier! I have many more responsibilities than just HR and this definitely cuts back on my time spent entering employee hours by hand and processing schedules, etc. This allows my employees more control and keeps them more accountable for their own time, PTO requests and changing of schedules!

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All very easy to set up and integrates well with my payroll software. Also has a message board that is seen by all employees which makes it easy to send information and receive confirmation that everyone has read it.

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Sometimes requires too many approvals.

Advice to Others

Take time to watch video and really understand all that it is capable of.

Simple but effective, user-friendly with great support

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Our business is small, but has lots of different areas over two sites so it can be complicated to make rotas and keep track of hours. Deputy makes it super easy, and the app is simple to use so my staff is happy too.

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It looks good, is easy for my staff to use, and has a very intuitive back-end. The customer support is exceptional - I requested a feature and they rolled it out in the following update.

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There are a lot of notifications, but these are reasonably easy to turn on and off so it's not really a complaint!

Worry free time keeping

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easy to track time for payroll.

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easy to use all aspects of time keeping and scheduling. Also like the assignable task feature . we have seasonal workers so I like the flexible payment plan.

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I have had trouble exporting timesheets with my accounting software. It is sometimes clunky. I would like an alert if time elapses without activity so I won't forget to clock out. I wish the vacation function would insert a value on the weekly page somehow so we can tell if someone is on vacation.

Exactly what I was looking for

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Probably one of the best scheduling/staffing apps out there organizing my company's staffing, scheduling and payroll.

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The scheduling features, clocking in and out (especially with location services), communication with team capabilities, and overall polished interface are so well thought out and done. I researched several different software and apps, but this one really checked a lot of boxes for our small business. We have a core staff and many seasonal staff, so having a versatile staffing and scheduling app was very important. I love that I can copy weekly schedules, easily change staffing whenever I need to, communicate with the team about changes right through the app, and write notes about each shift with additional information. When it's time for payroll, the approval and tallying of hours is so quick and easy.

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So far it is an indispensable part of my business. I (and my staff) absolutely love it. The only issue I still have with the app is its inability to have several different pay rates for each person. Our company offers several different "jobs" that people can claim, but each job has its specific pay rate. When it comes to payroll, it would be nice to be able to select which payrate that employee is being paid for each shift/or position. Once this is in place, then I will be able to benefit from the budget and exporting features of the app. Right now, I cannot, but I understand this may be a special set-up.

Easy to use and customer support are quick and helpful

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Easy to organise my team. They also got a push notification to their phone regarding the start time of their shift. Very useful for managing remote workers.

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Easy to have a high level view of what is going on with my team. I can quickly and easily see how many hours each employee has done and compare it to the hours I shifted them.
I can also categorise the work so I know what time is spent doing what activity. This for me is very helpful.

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Filling out the schedule can be time consuming. As with my business only 1 person is shifted at a time so it is tiresome to keep setting the start time of the next employee as the end time of the previous.
In addition I would like to be able to edit the view more, for example colour code each employee so when looking at the schedule it is easier to see who is on and when.
As our business is not sales related the reports which rostered hours against sales is not really useful. I wish I could change the metrics or KPI's so that they are now inline with what my business needs.

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What I like most is what I never expected and that is that our staff LOVE it! They are engaged, they use the messaging, love the task feature and appreciate the ability to provide input to their own schedule. Also, the make-up of our staff is super random from week to week and Deputy allows us to do custom scheduling with 100% accuracy.

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Keeping in mind that we just started using Deputy it might be a little unfair for me to answer this right now but what I find is that it is a little tedious to have to do as many things manually as we do. I'm sure I will discover shortcuts soon enough so this isn't even a complaint. Plus, the reason I gave the' Value for Money' 4 stars is because of the US/CDN exchange rate, again, nothing to do with Deputy.

Business Critical - Couldn't be without it!

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We love the fact that it gives both the manager and the staff the flexibility to control their shifts and it gives the employees a sense of ownership - they are almost responsible for their own time management.

Not to mention all the flexibility it gives the management of building shift templates, managing leave and the especially the time sheets (now that paid breaks are a feature) it makes payroll preperation a breeze. (We haven't yet used the Xero payroll integration and the Xero payroll has not yet been rolled out in our country, but we are looking forward to it).

As a busy little cafe we have also used the task management feature to cover off all of our daily / weekly food safety requirements which makes it much easier for everyone to input their duties and the simple fact is - if its easier, it gets done.

Before moving to Deputy we tried a few other products but this one seemed to suit us best and one of the main reasons we moved is because we felt it offered the best value for money especially as our staff numbers change all the time.

We have recently expanded our operation to second location and without Deputy the shift management could have been hectic. Having this system already in place just meant that we had one less thing to worry about.

Deputy has become an integral part of our daily routine.

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As mentioned earlier we are a busy little cafe so we spend most of our time on the shop floor, whilst Deputy has a fantastic mobile options and visibility, as managers it would be great if had more flexibility to "approve" more employees requests on the go like shift swaps and leave applications.

Also I found that the employees with Android phones seem to have a few bugs still hiding away in their app and they also don't yet have access to the task manager on their phones.

However, these are fairly small issues in the great scheme of things and based on the development rate and technical support I have received to date I have no doubt that these are already in the development pipeline. We look forward to the updates as they roll out.

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This application is brilliant. It's functionality and ease of use has totally revamped our management of labour hire onsite . Having labour on multiple sites can stretch your resource management so being able to track when and where everyone is at one time is awesome!
Highly recommend!